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Twitter Heard You: The 140-Character Limit Is Here to Stay

There’s good news for the Twitter faithful Friday: the network’s signature 140-character limit isn’t going anywhere. Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey told the Today Show’s Matt Lauer that the limit is too much a part of Twitter’s identity to let go. “It’s staying, it’s a good constraint for us,” he said. “It allows for of-the-moment brevity.” Twitter’s chief executive was ... Read More »

Twitter on Its 10th Birthday Confirms 140-Character Limit to Stay

With 320 million users including celebrities such as Harry Styles, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber on its platform, the micro-blogging site Twitter on Monday wrote a 140-character thank you note to its users as it celebrated its 10th anniversary. Twitter users are creating 500 million tweets per day and 200 billion tweets every year. “On March 21, ten years ago, ... Read More »